I must say I am becoming a little apprehensive. Are you dictatorial? Do you compromise?

On the one hand, you're willing to take the trip, so that speaks to an expansiveness. On the other hand, are you ever wrong, do you ever allow another's opinion to register and enlargen you? You have decreed something about you, about me, about us -- you have lorded from on high, in a way. This is bothersome. Again, NO EXPECTATIONS. Yet you won't grant this.

Of course you have to be cautious. That's not, however, what I've been saying in the least. But you have rules. And that's not democratic, that's not what relationships are about. For my sake, of course, but more for your sake in whatever happens with you and your love life, I hope so.

[submitted 01/19/02]